Re: Support for gzip at the server #424

Decompress, yes, buffer the entire body? No. Gzip can happily be
stream-decompressed.

-=R
On Mar 10, 2014 2:03 AM, "Martin Thomson" <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Discussion offline leads me to conclude that doing this would be bad idea.
>
> The basic problem is with 2->1.1 translation at intermediaries.  While
> the HTTP/2 request might include a Content-Length, the gateway is
> going to be forced to decompress and buffer the entire request body
> before forwarding to a 1.1 server.
>
> This doesn't seem like a good outcome.  Maybe this is something to
> defer to the version of HTTP/x that ships when most of the world is
> already using HTTP/2.
>
>